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peter9477 Keep in mind that you can't simply compare stock prices like that. It's a total case of apples and oranges (no pun intended) unless you happen to be comparing two companies with equal numbers of shares outstanding. Otherwise it's like me saying I've got ten diamonds here worth $1,000 apiece, whereas you've got 100,000 water bottles at $1 apiece, and therefore I'm somehow worth more than you because, hey, my diamonds are worth $1000 each!
In this case, Apple has ~940M shares outstanding, and RIM has 524M. As it happens, this actually magnifies the effect, but it could just as easily have shrunk it instead.
(As you probably knew all that, let this be for the benefit of others who may have thought you could actually just compare stock prices directly and have it mean something.)